Weekly Workout Recap – December 5th – 11th

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AKA Workouts During Week 12 of Pregnancy 

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Mine was filled with holiday festivities including Theodora’s annual cookie swap and the annual holiday lunch with some of Bo’s best guy friends, many of whom I’ve now known for nine years! Thanks to a very rich, late lunch at Peter Luger’s yesterday, I was in bed by 7:45pm. This set me up well for an early morning Monday workout!

Since so many people have requested that I share my workouts throughout pregnancy, today is the return of my Weekly Workout Recaps. I will share these each Monday with not only links and class details but also any adjustments I made during class due to pregnancy. Since I’m still early in my pregnancy, just 13 weeks, there aren’t very many adjustments yet.

  • Monday December 5th – After a long Monday I was craving a cardio sweat party, aka Soul Cycle class. While I don’t take Soul Cycle that often, I find that it can cure a bad mood better than almost any other workout. Joyce’s class was almost completely out of the saddle which is a change for me. If you take Soul Cycle classes regularly, would you say this is typical these days?
  • Tuesday December 6th – You guys know I don’t have my rythym and therefore typically avoid dance workout classes. Thanks to Target‘s C9 brand and AKT Nomad I had the opportunity to try an AKT Happy Hour class bright and early Tuesday morning with Kayla, Theodora and other NYC influencers. The Happy Hour class is their signature dance-based interval class. The class alternated between choreographed dance cardio combinations and toning workouts including a VERY challenging glute series that left my glutes sore for two days. By the end of the class I’d let my inhibitions go and was having a blast even though I was always a step or two behind. I enjoyed this class SO much that I’d consider going to it again or even trying their AKTEASE class which is targeted towards beginners.
  • Wednesday December 7th – Rest Day
  • Thursday December 8th  – I received a cold weather running package from my friends at Brooks which inspired me to immediately try on the pieces and head out the door for an outside jog. I jogged for 30 minutes around the neighborhood, enjoying the holiday lights and festive decorations while trying to ignore the cold weather’s affect on my lungs.
  • Friday December 9th – Since joining the Brooklyn (Dodge) YMCA this month, I’ve had the chance to get back into Body Pump. This was the first workout class I took when I started my fitness journey ten years ago. I used to take Body Pump three times a week at the gym near my apartment in Wayne, Pennsylvania but since moving to New York City haven’t been able to take it since it’s only offered in certain gyms. Friday evening I kicked off the weekend with a very sweaty, fast paced Body Pump Express class. I thought express meant it’d skip one track to result in a shorter class. Nope, it just meant you did 90% of the work in 75% of the time and most of the time was saved during transitions. I think I’ll stick to regular classes during my pregnancy as I found the pace a bit hard to keep up with at times.
  • Saturday December 10th – I met my sister-in-law at the Brooklyn Heights Soul Cycle for a 60-minute Soul Survivor class led by the very energetic Eve. Her class included A LOT of time out of the saddle as well as Rihanna tunes. By the time class was over I was ready to get out of the hot, sticky room but during class I felt great.
  • Sunday December 11th –  I returned to jogging with a 40-minute treadmill workout consisting of 5 minute walking intervals at 4.2 speed and 5.0 incline followed by 5 minute of jogging intervals at 5.7 speed and 1.0 incline.

 

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In Case You Missed It …

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Oh my gosh, both Bo and I are overwhelmed with the outpouring of love and support we’ve felt over the past few days since sharing our news publicly. As you can imagine, it was very difficult to contain our excitement these past twelve weeks.

When you share so much of your life on social media, it is very difficult to keep up an active, energetic appearance when all you want to do is sleep and eat Saltines. There were days when I would watch other friends conquer tough workouts, run races I’d once planned to run and immediately want to dive under the covers. Keeping this news private was very overwhelming for me due to the amount this wonderful news changed my lifestyle almost immediately.

For those of you who haven’t been on the journey of motherhood, I quickly learned that the first trimester is the most fragile. I didn’t see my doctor until week seven and before that, I was constantly worried about doing something to harm the baby. As soon as we found out we were pregnant I started sleeping more, changed my workouts to exclusively walking and barre classes, fueled my body with nutrient packed foods like protein, fruits and vegetables, and said NO to commitments.  While all doctors are different, during our first visit, my doctor recommended that I focus on rest and relaxation during the first trimester to balance the stress of everyday life. She didn’t want me doing high intensity workouts or pushing myself. While I’ve historically been stubborn and prided myself on my ability to “do it all” I took this feedback to heart and pushed the brakes the first twelve weeks.  The human body has amazed me through this process, as it naturally forced me to slow down by using all my energy to form Baby Girl Diamond and the headaches and nausea forced me to sleep more than normal.

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Now that we are in Week 12 I feel like I’m starting to experience the pregnancy glow and energy that so many people told me would come in the second trimester.  Last week I craved workouts for the first time in three months, enjoying everything from incline walking to two Body Pump classes. My aversions have subsided while my cravings for fruit, protein and sparkling water are still going strong.

Here are a few statistics and updates for everyone:

  • Week of pregnancy: I entered week 12 yesterday!
  • When is Baby Girl Diamond due: As of now, her predicted due date is Father’s Day – June 18th, 2017.
  • Who is my OB-GYN: I am in love with my OB-GYN, Dr. Cheon. My friend Meggie referred me to her and since then I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to refer four of my friends to her. She personally calls us with updates and test results and has spent at least 45 minutes with us during each of our appointment.
  • How many months did it take you all to conceive: We were actively trying for three months before we conceived. I will do a dedicated post on this topic later this week.
  • What birth control was I using, if any before? I had an IUD in for five years until March 2016.
  • When and how did you find out you were pregnant? Since we were actively trying, I started taking pregnancy tests the day after my period was supposed to arrive. I had five negative pregnancy tests before having two positive ones five days following my expected period. I looked and felt very lethargic the entire weekend my parents were visiting us in New York City and my mom insisted that she thought I was pregnant. Luckily I took the sixth test right before they left for the airport on Monday morning. I was 3.5 weeks pregnant when we found out.
  • What kind of pregnancy test did you take? Clearblue PLUS Pregnancy Test
  • How many doctor’s appointments have you had so far? We have had two appointments, week seven and eleven, including two sonograms.
  • Did we want a boy or a girl? The only thing we wanted was a healthy baby – the sex did not matter.
  • Do you have a name yet? Yes, we have a name but we are not sharing with anyone, including parents and family, until we hold the baby in our arms and decide that the name fits her.
  • Aversions: Randomly, the three things I’ve had the largest aversion to are brussels sprouts, coffee and bacon.
  • Cravings: Fresh mango, cottage cheese, seltzer water, lots of protein (cottage cheese, Baby Bel cheese, Fage yogurt), shrimp and Greek salads.
  • How did you find out the sex so early in your pregnancy? We opted to have an optional blood test during week eleven which measured PAPP-A and Free Beta HcG as well as provided the sex of the baby.

Please keep the questions coming friends! For those of you who are less interested in pregnancy posts, my posts Tuesday and Wednesday this week aren’t pregnancy focused! 

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